Bankers find an unlikely ally

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Anglo-American relations elsewhere may be a little strained, but there has
been some praise for the UK from an American.

Bethany McLean, the co-author of The Smartest Guys in the Room, which
chronicles the collapse of Enron, said over lunch at Scott’s in Mayfair in
London this week that there was “a greater sense of responsibility and
culpability among UK financial institutions”.

Then again, maybe she was just being polite to her hosts — the investment club
Pi Capital.

Asked about her most awkward moment in the London book tour to promote her
latest tome, All The Devils Are Here, she